This data collection examines the economic and occupational
changes experienced over a 25-year period by families living in Sugao,
a village in the state of Maharashtra, India. The residents of this
village were surveyed in 1942 and 1958 to uncover aspects of their
daily lives and again in 1977 to explore more fully the effects of the
economic attraction of Bombay, an industrialized metropolis 150 miles
away, on village life. Data were collected at both the individual and
family levels. Respondents were queried on such topics as caste,
gender, age, marital status, education, residence, primary, secondary,
and tertiary occupations, location of occupation, years employed at
occupation, income, work habits, and job classification. Families
reported on their size and composition, members living outside the
village, economic relationships with others, acquisition, size, and
construction of housing unit, and home improvements. Information was
also gathered on family income sources and, in particular, on the
amount of money and goods remitted to the village by family members
living and working in Bombay. Agricultural issues explored include
family labor provided for farming, amount of irrigated and
non-irrigated land, productivity of the land, and the type, number, and
location of livestock.

This data collection examines the economic and occupational
changes experienced over a 25-year period by families living in Sugao,
a village in the state of Maharashtra, India. The residents of this
village were surveyed in 1942 and 1958 to uncover aspects of their
daily lives and again in 1977 to explore more fully the effects of the
economic attraction of Bombay, an industrialized metropolis 150 miles
away, on village life. Data were collected at both the individual and
family levels. Respondents were queried on such topics as caste,
gender, age, marital status, education, residence, primary, secondary,
and tertiary occupations, location of occupation, years employed at
occupation, income, work habits, and job classification. Families
reported on their size and composition, members living outside the
village, economic relationships with others, acquisition, size, and
construction of housing unit, and home improvements. Information was
also gathered on family income sources and, in particular, on the
amount of money and goods remitted to the village by family members
living and working in Bombay. Agricultural issues explored include
family labor provided for farming, amount of irrigated and
non-irrigated land, productivity of the land, and the type, number, and
location of livestock.

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Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Dandekar, Hemalata C., and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. Rural Development in Deccan Maharashtra, India: Village Panel Study, 1942-1977. ICPSR09308-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09308.v1

The 1942 and 1958 surveys of the village population
were completed by The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. The
1977 survey was completed by Hemalata C. Dandekar who coded responses
from all three surveys.

Methodology

Data Source:

personal interviews and self-enumerated questionnaires

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1990-05-01

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB9308.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.